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Birds Are Shit

18 points by Tomte ago | 8 comments

rkapsoro |next [-]

My beef with birds has always been that they treat the entire world as their toilet. Woe betide the creature who finds himself beneath a bird.

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aagha |next |previous [-]

Interestingly, birds are the only other species--even amongst mammals--where male/female pairing ratios are nearly identical to humans.

sagabai |next |previous [-]

Swans are overrated geese. But ducks are fine

waffletower |next |previous [-]

I am not sure that visitors will spend enough time to get the art. I attempted to give the carrion crow its due, noting 18 legitimate votes. But when I tried to add my rank it landed "the democratic process has collapsed".

leZon |previous [-]

ducks >>> all birds

olyjohn |root |parent [-]

...except for the whole creepy gang rape thing.

specproc |root |parent [-]

Ducks suck, Corvids are where it's at.

I regularly feed bits of my sandwich to the jackdaws near me, they'll catch it out the air.